From all replies and my own understanding this is what conclusion I came up with. In the history of the bible, the first part of the bible makes up stories to describe to all how God thinks, feels, and how he runs his people. Everytime they have formed a religious group, even taking them far away from all other religions (wilderness), they have failed from human error. And these people talked to God directly. Later when Jesus tried as a man, obviously showing us why God gave up on us, God handed it over to someone else who wanted to try. He recognized that no body of people could come to the complete understanding and said God's people will be taken out of all nations, tribes and tongues, a big hint that there won't be a certain group, but that his people would be scattered. John or any of the other apostles is noted as writing to congregations, not a religious group or people. Like he didn't say, I'm writing to the Jew's, or Lutherans, but the congregation of...
History has shown us that in all religions, none of them will ever hit the mark because of human error. But to find good fellowship, a church is a good idea. I'm not one to sit at the bar, and most of the people I work with are JW's.
Another thing about my husband saying it was not ok for me to take my son to a church. He is still a JW, and we know how they fear going into a church. The bible wants us to be peaceable with all men so if I do it anyhow or behind his back, will that make peace? no! This is where I need to build faith in God and pray to him that my son doesn't get warped up in the Borg like most kids do. He will be taught how to hold the ten commandments and conduct himself as far as manners, so I have to look at the good side.
I thank all who replied about what they think of idols. I got to thinking more on that and the only one that fears idols are JWs. For instance, I put an american flag bumper sticker on my car, my husbands truck broke down, but he would not use my car to go to the kingdom hall because of that bumper sticker. Its just a sticker, but HE gave it power it didn't have before, that is idolatry. To me its just a sticker.
So thank you all who replied to my last post. Keep in touch, much love and peace!
Serena
Definition of insanity: Doing the same thing over and over with no apparent changes in outcome, yet expecting things to get better.
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